Shadorma

my drive song
keeps me wide awake
eyes open
moon lit farms
magic misty scenery
cool breeze on my face


a night drive
with trucks whizzing by
hit the road
keep driving
to nowhere and anywhere
all roads end somewhere

New Years Eve - Troiku

 Create a ‘fusion ku’ and then a Troiku on the theme of New Year’s Eve based on two haiku by Jane Reichhold 

a new year
rising from wild seas
a few stars

filling
the glass with candlelight
champagne

Jane Reichhold






popping champagne corks
the sky alight with fireworks
new years eve again

Troiku 

popping champagne corks
cheers and roars from the crowd
i slide the doors shut

the sky alight with fireworks
millions of dollars in flames
for fun fifteen minutes

new years eve again
party downstairs deafening
can't find my ear plugs

Sunday's Whirligig 194

 

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "A Ritual to Read to Each Other" by William E. Stafford: should shrug cruelty darkness discourage miss know horrible tail fool  lost fragile

 

 

 

you should miss her
but she knows you don't
you walk away with a shrug
as if she never existed
you did nothing to discourage her
horrible men with little horns and tails
are drawn to her like moths to a flame
lost and fragile she is a fool to expect anything else
cruelty and darkness are part of her life

 

 

 

 

 

Brahms Symphony No.3 (3rd movement) - Barbirolli

Christmas Eve

santa has arrived
sleigh bells tinkle on the roof
everyone's asleep

Renga With Basho Carpe Diem - Meditation # 64

Basho










feeling holy
the tears that stain
fallen leaves
my boat is so small
must you take that too







withering wind
is the fragrance still attached
to the late-blooming flower
her lack lustre petals torn
she had not  noticed


sweeping the garden
the snow forgotten
by the broom
like so many forgotten
by their families

the paulownia leaf
moves on the autumn wind
frost in the ivy
a cold thought flying in the breeze
a lonely time for the homeless




under a crescent moon
the ground is hazy
with blackwheat flowers
field mice scuttle about
gorging themselves with seeds

cattle shed
dark sound of mosquitoes
in summer heat
blow flies buzzing about
the steaming cow pats

Nat King Cole - Chestnuts roasting on an open fire

an open fire
twinkling lights on the tree
it's christmas
time for a bailey's nightcap
and a piece of iced fruit cake